There are many things that most people cannot hope to truly comprehend unless or until they’ve experienced it firsthand. Chief among those things is the pain and sufferi...
It’s hard not to chuckle just a bit over the recent misfortune of Anthony Mastrangelo.
He’s the 81-year-old mayor of New Castle, next door in Lawrence County, which shar...
Just four short years ago, you could have been forgiven for believing that incoming State System of Higher Education Chancellor Frank T. Brogan was going to be the answe...
Sooner or later, government will learn that transparency is the best policy when serving the public good. Ultimately it’s the only policy.
The latest case in point comes...
Municipal and school officials in Butler appeared to score a victory last week when the state Commonwealth Court upheld a denial of AK Steel’s appeal on a property tax a...
Have you ever overheard a person delivering a piece of advice so brutal and honest that you’re glad it’s aimed at someone else?
That’s the kind of tough love that was la...
When two teenaged residents escaped from the Summit Academy reform school last week, residents nearby in Summit Township said they should have been notified immediately....
Common sense measures and bipartisanship are hard to come by in Harrisburg these days. So it’s with great pleasure that we hold up SB 1197 — also known as the Clean Stat...
A local newspaper keeps covenenant with its community. We do our best to tell the truth.
We hold up a mirror, knowing sometimes the image that’s reflected there won’t be...
“It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't, it couldn't”
— Frank Zappa “Apostrophe,” 1974
To determine what s...
